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The Political Economy of Immigration Policy

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

We analyze a newly available dataset of migration policy decisions reported by governments to the United Nations … aimed at either maintaining the status quo or at lowering the level of migration. We also document variation in migration … of destination countries’ migration policies (policies towards family reunification, temporary vs. permanent migration …

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The Political Economy of International Factor Mobility

Facchini, Giovanni; Willmann, Gerald - 2012

We model the endogenous determination of policy towards international factor mobility. In a common agency setting, domestic interest groups bid for protection from the government and the incumbent politicians maximize a welfare function that depends both on domestic voters' welfare and...

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The Political Economy of International Factor Mobility

Facchini, Giovanni; Willmann, Gerald - 2004

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Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato

Facchini, Giovanni; Lorz, Oliver; Willmann, Gerald - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...

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The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the US Congress

Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max … - 2012

barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to … political economy of trade and migration, in this paper we find that important similarities should not be overlooked. In … to support a more open migration stance than their Republican counterparts, and the opposite is true for trade …

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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2013

contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive … of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006). …

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